WWW resources related to Newton

Sites already mentioned in the separate Gallery of Portraits may not be included here as well. I am using "*" to indicate links to large collections or collections which are complete on their own terms (eg a list of all two dozen portraits of Newton would get a star even if it was just one page.)

Newton himself

• David Joyce's list of Newton web resources* from his History of Mathematics site
• list of web pages at the history of astronomy* site at Bonn
• Newton biographical material listed at the WWW Virtual Library: History of Science
• A chronology at an Iowa State University Dynamics course
• Newtonian manuscripts at the Cambridge University Library
• Isaac Newton room at Babson College
  • An announcement that the Babson collection is moving to MIT
• A photograph of a mathematical manuscript from the Bodleian Library image catalogue.
• A lot of material about `Principia', Book Two. Lemma II, concerning Newton, calculus and Berkeley's criticism.
• A brief description and photgraph of Principia at the University of Delaware Library
• The National Trust page about Woolsthorpe Manor, Newton's birthplace.
• Description of Newton's copy of Harmonicon coeleste
• The self-proclaimed Official Isaac Newton homepage (!)

These are in no particular order except that Westfall wrote the best biography of Newton in print. Figures in brackets are the total number of characters in the HTML page.

• Catalog of 16th and 17th Century scientists hosted by the Galileo project
  • Richard Westfall's entry for Newton (7561)
• another summary by Westfall of Newtons's life (7429), at The Isaac Newton Institute
• Rouse Ball's Short Account of the History of Mathematics
  • a mathematical biography of Newton (36696)
  • Leibniz and the Priority Dispute (26432)
• A long and thorough page on Newton's life and thought (35485) at Force and Krumpelman's Isaac Newton Homepage
• A biographical sketch leading up to Newton's ``Giants'' compliment or insult to Hooke, by the popular-science author John Gribbin (NB Gribbin cites John Faulkner as originating this interpretation c1987, but it was mentioned by Westfall in Never at Rest in 1980. It may be older?)
• MacTutor History of Mathematics at St. Andrew's
  • Newton (13534)
• Newton (8218) from The World's Great Mathematicians at Hong Kong Baptist University
• Views of the Solar System
  • Newton (~250)
• Isaac Newton: the first physicist (9352) by Mark Alford
• Newton's entry (18896) in Bob Bruen's history of the Lucasian professorship
• The Newtonian Paradigm at Honolulu Community College Science 122
  • Introduction (2063)
  • The 17th Century (2850)
  • Personal History (4629)
  • Personality (1204)
• From Knowledge Adventure Online
  • Newton: 17th Century Einstein (4457)
  • Isaac Newton's New Universe (2570)
  • Newton Figures Escape Velocity (2318)
• Short biography (2499) from Resources for Physics Education
• Michael Fowler's biographical sketch at his Galileo and Einstein course site, which includes How Newton Built on Galileo's Ideas.
• A biography by J.A. Schuster at Central University of Venezuela
• The Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography includes Newton (16810) (of course)
• The Newton biography (4090) at the Lucid Cafe
• Some notes about Newton (4910) at Knowmagine
• Isaac Newton: His first 26 years, optics, and alchemy (13802,11452,15852)

• Force and Krumpelman's Isaac Newton Homepage has scans of the 199 page manuscript ``Paradoxical Questions concerning ye morals & actions of Athanasius & his followers'' as well as a detailed page about his life and work.
• Newton's On the Prophetic Language at The Bible - God's Word, Wholly Inspired and Infallible
  (NB If you look carefully at this site you will see that it is opposed to the Trinity, just as Newton was.)
• Godzilla Meets the Pluralists including notes for Newton's History of the Church from Contra Mundum

The Scientific Revolution

• Galileo
  • Galileo Project* at Rice University
  • Art of Renaissance Science*
• The Leibniz Gopher
• Leibniz WWW page at the Stanford Metaphysics Research Lab
• The Alchemy Virtual Library* (Part of the scientfic revolution IMHO.)

• leaflets from the Royal Greenwich Observatory
  • Time
  • the calendar
  • the date of Easter
  • leap years
• Calendars and Time list from Astoria
• Marcos J. Monte's Ecclesiastical Calendar
• calendar form using Unix cal command - this was one of the first WWW examples and has been set up at many of other sites.
• Source code, README and (raw format) man page for the BSD Unix cal command as used in Linux. This uses the Julian Calendar for dates before 3rd September 1752, and Gregorian for all subsequent dates. Consequently it gives the calendar as used in Britain (and her colonies ...)
• Just1n's Perpetual Calendar

Most of these books were found using Alex, an index of electronic texts on the Internet. However The On-line Books Page is probably more up to date now.

• Works by Aristotle
  • Physics, Translated by R.P. Hardie.
  • On the heavens Translated by J.L. Stocks, 1882-1937
  • Meteorology, Translated by E.W. Webster, d. 1917
• Titus Lucretius Carus,
  • On the nature of things Translated by W.E. Leonard, 1876-1944
• Works by Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
  • The new Atlantis
  • The essays, 1601
• Works by John Locke, 1632-1704
  • Concerning civil government, second essay, 1690
  • A letter concerning toleration, Translated by Popple, William, d. 1708
  • An essay concerning human understanding, 1690
• Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Leibniz, 1646-1716, The monadology, Translated by Robert Latta

• Medieval Latin* from Labyrinth
• Medieval Latin Wordlist from Kansas (215K)
• Webster's Dictionary
• Roget's Thesaurus
• The glossary from the Galileo Project

Libraries, Museums and Collections: Virtual and Real

• WWW Virtual Library: History of Science Technology and Medicine*
• WWW Virtual Library: Museums*
• Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
• Science Museum*, London
• Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge
• History of Science* list at John Hopkins
• History of Astronomy* site at Bonn
• The Alchemy Virtual Library*
• Some 17th Century editions of The London Gazette
• The On-line Books Page*
• Design philosophy of EXPO*
• Miami MOO: a re-creation of ancient Greek sites
• Galleries / Virtual Museums from MIT's City of Bits*
  (an essay about exhibits, not an exhibit itself.)
• Building Virtual Museums
• Virtual Museums: The Web Experience

With "newton" in the name

• Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge
• Isaac Newton group of telescopes
• Newton's Apple - a PBS television science program
• Sir Isaac's spot: the World of Newton and other PDA's (little Apple Inc. palmtop computers)

• The Places Map was made with the Xerox Parc Map Viewer.